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Until his celebrated charity boxing match with Justin Trudeau last March, all most Canadians knew about Sen. Patrick Brazeau was that he was supposed to be a black belt in karate, and that everyone (including himself) predicted he’d clobber Justin.

We know a little more about him now, and from his record one can see what is wrong with Canada’s policies for aboriginals.

What is difficult to understand is why Prime Minister Stephen Harper ever appointed him a senator (Canada’s youngest at age 38), unless it was the PM’s way of showing how antiquated and unnecessary the institution has become.

He was hopelessly outmatched in his boxing match with Justin (he exhausted himself in the first round trying for a knockout, and suffered a technical knockout when the referee halted Justin’s windmill assaults).

Pathetic.

A lot of things have since come to public attention about Brazeau.

An Algonquin, born in Quebec’s Kitigan Zibi reserve (population 1,100) near Maniwaki, Brazeau was national chief of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP) until appointed to the Senate.

The first inkling of his ethical values came when he sought to hold both positions at once — senator and national chief — thus drawing two six-figure salaries.

He was told that was a no-no.

He chose the Senate, average salary $132,000, compared to the average of $29,000 on the reserve. The Senate job is his until 2049, when he hits age 75.

There were allegations of employees drinking on the job during Brazeau’s tenure at the Congress, as well as a complaint of sexual harassment.

The Globe and Mail has reported that auditors found more than half of $462,000 allocated to CAP by Health Canada for aboriginal health issues had been spent on board meetings where health wasn’t a topic.

The latest development in the unfolding Brazeau saga is a CTV report that between 2004 and 2008 (before being appointed to the Senate) Brazeau used his father-in-law’s address on the reserve to avoid paying income tax.

The father-in-law was unaware his address was being used by Brazeau to escape income tax.

Others on the reserve can’t recall him living there.

There’s irony in this because Brazeau has championed more accountability among aboriginal chiefs.

Kitigan Zibi Chief Gilbert Whiteduck seemed somewhat jaundiced at Brazeau’s exemption: “I’m not sure how he would have done that,” he told CTV.

“Normally you have income tax exemption when you live on a reserve and you are employed by a reserve.

“To put all the focus on accountability, he’d better be looking in the mirror.”

It seems Brazeau has also been delinquent on child-support payments.

Revenue Quebec ordered a salary garnishee of some $800 a month for child support.

There’s limited sympathy for Brazeau, especially since he’s on record questioning Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence’s so-called 44-day hunger strike, from which she emerged looking plumper than when she started it.

Brazeau has one of the worst attendance records in the Senate — skipping 25% of the sessions between June 2011 and April 2012, and away for 65% of the Aboriginal People’s Committee, of which he is a member, and missing 30% of the Human Rights Committee, of which he is deputy chair.

It’s all academic now.

He’s been bounced from the Tory caucus after police were called to his home in the Gatineau Hills, and he was carted off to jail.

Details will make lively reading, but all things considered, Brazeau has not been a shining role model for aboriginals — or for Harper’s judgment.

Until his celebrated charity boxing match with Justin Trudeau last March, all most Canadians knew about Sen. Patrick Brazeau was that he was supposed to be a black belt in karate, and that everyone (including himself) predicted he’d clobber Justin.

We know a little more about him now, and from his record one can see what is wrong with Canada’s policies for aboriginals.

What is difficult to understand is why Prime Minister Stephen Harper ever appointed him a senator (Canada’s youngest at age 38), unless it was the PM’s way of showing how antiquated and unnecessary the institution has become.

He was hopelessly outmatched in his boxing match with Justin (he exhausted himself in the first round trying for a knockout, and suffered a technical knockout when the referee halted Justin’s windmill assaults).

Pathetic.

A lot of things have since come to public attention about Brazeau.

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